My 2nd most popular video on YouTube right now is so freaking ridiculous and I only made it because I did two weeks of daily videos.
I thought, “this day is just full of random crap,” and there wasn’t much of a story. So I sat down to edit, then I grabbed my camera and I without hesitation put my chubby quarantine gut into frame and danced.
Why?
My brain defaults to slapstick and absurd humor whenever I get nervous. The first time I ever played on stage with a band our drummer quit during the second verse. I took off my shoe, I threw it at him. Not in anger, I just thought it was ridiculous. Then our singer went over to the drums and played the kit with my one shoe. I grabbed the mic and put it in my mouth and started just making sounds. I thanked everyone and got off of the stage.
Was it kind of annoying?
Most definitely.
As I have gotten older I have dialed back the absurdity and I have started to try to at least have a point in what I am doing.
Back to the editing bay. There I was. I had random footage of my foot in a bucket of ice, the kids challenged me to a foot submersion challenge, and I had some random footage of me dancing. So I wrote a quick script and threw a voice over on top of my footage.
I had zero clue that this would be my second most popular video on my channel, but it only exists because I made a commitment to daily videos so I had to make something.
Art is work.
You have to show up for it even if you don’t feel like it. I would dare to say a lot of people don’t feel like going to the office but they do it anyway. Imagine what would happen if you or I kept applying this logic to our own ambitions, dreams, and goals.
